War Quotes

The coming of the wireless era will make war impossible, because it will make war ridiculous.

They're on our right, they're on our left, they're in front of us, they're behind us; they can't get away from us this time.

The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form.

World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.

We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Only the dead have seen the end of war.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

Moving to 100 percent renewable energy means we no longer need and can no longer justify wars for oil.

I spend money on war because it is necessary, but to spend it on science, that is pleasant to me. This object costs no tears; it is an honour to humanity

Nowhere in the world, in no act of genocide, in no war, are so many people killed per minute, per hour and per day as those who are killed by hunger and poverty on our planet.

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears.

Swift as the wind. Quiet as the forest. Conquer like the fire. Steady as the mountain

No one starts a war--or rather, no one in his sense ought to do so--without first being clear in his mind what he intends to achieve by the war and how he intends to conduct it.

The truth is that if Israel were to put down its arms there would be no more Israel. If the Arabs were to put down their arms there would be no more war.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left.

A war is not lost until you consider it lost.

War is ninety percent information.

Instead of friends, I see in Washington only mortal enemies. Instead of loving the old flag of the stars and stripes, I see in it only the symbol of murder, plunder, oppression, and shame.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

A leader leads by example not by force.

If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

First feelings are always the most natural.

The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies.

So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.

I suggest you to do war but never love because in war either you live or you die. But in love neither you live nor you die.

Violence can only be concealed by a lie, and the lie can only be maintained by violence.

You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war.

Peace for us means the destruction of Israel. We are preparing for an all-out war, a war which will last for generations...

The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.

During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.

I have always hated war and am by nature and philosophy a pacifist, but it is the English who are forcing war on us, and the first principle of war is to kill the enemy.

He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.

Before the war it was always the United States *are*, after the war it was the United States is... it made us an is.

Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

I am a Marxist-Leninist and I will be one until the last day of my life.

Of course people don't want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

In war, truth is the first casualty.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong.

America's got to take a break from foreign wars, and take a break from immigration.

Duty is ours; consequences are God's.

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

Our choice is not between war and peace but between life with dignity or without

If you start throwing hedgehogs under me, I shall throw a couple of porcupines under you.

Organized force alone enables the quiet and the weak to go about their business and to sleep securely in their beds, safe from the violent without or within.